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Verifying Kenyan governors’ claims of progress
Published on 01 December 2020
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Wycliffe Oparanya, chair of Kenya’s council of governors (July 2020)
Of the seven claims we checked, Oparanya was only correct that women are represented as required by law on county elected bodies.
He was nearly on the money about the percentages allocated to health. His figures about allocations to agriculture didn’t add up, however.
His claims about water and sanitation cannot be proven, while an expert told us that the 10% of budgets to be allocated to agriculture recommended by the African Union should be at both local and national levels of government, and not the sole responsibility of counties. ....

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